[CQ] Basic questions from a newbie

[Daniel González Gasull]

I'm up to collaborate, but can I without a ham radio license?

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
> Hi Daniel, what's your plan?
>
> I live up in the Western Addition/NOPA area and have had plans to start
> some sort of wifi network between houses up here and possibly down back
> into the Mission.
>
> I can see some Monkeybrains APs from my roof, but sadly no response from
> them regarding access to their network and how much.
>
> Andy Isaacson wrote, On 20110516 122557:
>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:07:50PM -0700, Daniel González Gasull wrote:
>>> But I need a goal; someone or something to connect to.  Otherwise it's
>>> too lonely.
>>>
>>> Are there some existing mesh networks here in San Francisco?  In The
>>> Mission-Dolores area?
>>
>> If you have line of sight to the Noisebridge roof, we have room for
>> another mast on the existing antenna mount.  There may even be a spare
>> mast already mounted, but I'm not sure if the project it was installed
>> for is still planning to use it.
>>
>> The Noisebridge roof is not set up for general access (smoking,
>> gardening, etc) due to the limited access and the ease of damaging the
>> roof membrane with foot traffic, but we do have specific permission from
>> the landlords to access it for antenna installation so long as we are
>> very careful to avoid damaging its water integrity.
>>
>> Rubin has been discussing a shared wireless mesh network.  CCing him.
>>
>> Monkeybrains is installing quite a lot of wifi capacity for their
>> Mission / Bernal / Soma network.  They're commercial, but they are
>> definitely good guys.
>>
>> -andy
>
>
> --
> Rubin Abdi
> rubin at starset.net
>
>



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Daniel González Gasull